TY - BOOK AU - Cook,Jonathan A. TI - Neither believer nor infidel: skepticism and faith in Melville's shorter fiction and poetry SN - 1501770977 AV - PS2387 .C665 2023 U1 - 813.3 23 PY - 2023///] CY - Ithaca, New York PB - Northern Illinois University Press KW - Melville, Herman, KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc KW - Faith in literature KW - Skepticism in literature KW - Foi dans la litt�erature KW - Scepticisme dans la litt�erature KW - fast KW - Melville and religion, religious skepticism in Melville, Melville and the bible, Melville biography, Melville literary criticism, Bartleby the Scrivener, Billy Budd, Melville and Christianity N1 - Includes index; Neither believer nor infidel: biographical considerations -- Biblical inversion and the ends of Christianity: "Bartleby, the Scrivener" -- Conversion, infatuation, resurrection: Christian salvation in "Cock-a-Doodle-Do!" -- The genealogy of Melville's female Job: Griselda, "Wakefield," Agatha, Hunilla -- Revolutionary skepticism in Israel Potter: the role of Ecclesiastes -- Memorializing the dead in Battle-Pieces: Christian and classical motifs -- "Are ye gods?" Interrogating the divine in Timoleon, etc. -- Legends of the fall: Genesis, Paradise Lost, Schopenhauer, Billy Budd N2 - "The first full-length study to explore the relationship between religious doubt and faith in a broad selection of Herman Melville's short stories, novellas, and poetry"- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=3411860 ER -